A Tale of Two Book Groups
The Westmoreland Public Library hosts two book groups. One group reads a variety of topics, alternating between fiction and non-fiction. This group meets on the second Tuesday of the month at 4 pm.
The other group focuses on the specific genres of Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy. This group meets on Saturday mornings at 11 am.
Below are the current reading selections for each group, the next meeting date, a list of upcoming selections, and a list of past selections.
The library provides copies of the month's selected titles.
The other group focuses on the specific genres of Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy. This group meets on Saturday mornings at 11 am.
Below are the current reading selections for each group, the next meeting date, a list of upcoming selections, and a list of past selections.
The library provides copies of the month's selected titles.
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Next Book Group meeting will be Febrary 10th, 2025, at 4 pm
in the library. Reading Selection for discussion
at the October Meeting: The Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner 
Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history, recently confined to a wheelchair by a crippling bone disease and dependant on others for his every need. Amid the chaos of 1970s counterculture he retreats to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, to write the biography of his grandmother: an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before. In discovering her story he excavates his own, probing the shadows of his experience and the America that has come of age around him.
Reading List:
February Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner *Libby, Audio CD * Titles with audio versions and where to find them. If you would like an Audio CD version, please ask to order it ahead of time. Past Selections: Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Walking with the Great Apes Sy Montgomery All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage Major Petttigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! by Fannie Flagg The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald Maus by Art Spiegelman The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein |
Next Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Book Group meeting will be February 7th, 2025, at 11 am in the library. Reading Selection for discussion
at the February Meeting: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 
Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.
Reading List: February We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson The Rest is To Be Determined Come to the next meeting to help decide the reading list! We can't choose books you want to read without your input. Past reads: Carrie by Stephen King Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Murderland by Caroline Fraser King Sorrow by Joe Hill |